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uBlock Origin 1.41

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#101

Post by mrguyorama »

This person is aggressively against being rewarded for their selfless desire to make the internet functional, nicer, quieter, and more about the users.

How many of you here instead spend your 40 hours a week making 6 digit salaries at a company that wants nothing more than to own the attention of everyone who connects to a network? How many of you have actively worked to create systems and technology to invade the screens and speakers of users who wanted nothing of the sort? How many of you have sat in meetings about "attribution" or "analytics" and lied to yourself about what you were building and what it would do to millions of people?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#102

Post by arepublicadoceu »

tiffanyh wrote: post #82
arepublicadoceu wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Safari + Adguard OR 1blocker OR wipr (it's not even close to ublock origin but it's the best you're gonna get on this damned walled garden) For ioswide adblock: nextdns dns profile is the best you're gonna get as well. With no battery usage as it's just a dns profile.

Ironically, uBO author recommends AGAIST what you listed. See the parent link.

Are you sure?

Just checked the link and the only arguments against 1blocker is the subscription model and paid upgrades.

Nothing significant against adguard or wipr.

The do not recommend list only have:

-Adblock plus

-Ublock

-Adblock for safari

Anyway, as I said, nothing comes close to ublock origin but it is what it is.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#103

Post by redwall_hp »

kmlx wrote: post #98
npteljes wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, YouTube at least offers a subscription that makes the ads go away. Which is not the case with the cesspool that's the rest of the internet basically. It's such a privilege that a software like this exists, and is offered for free with no strings attached.

yes, this. but this practice is less common than i would have assumed at first. there are websites out there that even after paying their subscription they still put up ads.

Hulu charges money and still interrupts shows with ads. Cable television ended up that way eventually too, despite one of the original selling points being the lack of ads. They always keep trying to take more.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#104

Post by unethical_ban »

PopAlongKid wrote: post #78
sleepless wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

”Lost its way“ is non-actionable and unsubstantiated criticism that reflects poorly on the person making such statement. What specifically do you disagree with? I actually feel the opposite way. Finally after years of ignoring macOS Firefox feels more at home and the UI changes make it much more pleasant to use.

"reflects poorly on the person making such statement" is non-actionable and unsubstantiated criticism.

No, it isn't. The implication is "To hold oneself to a better standard, make actionable and/or substantiated statements, especially when making critical statements."

People seem to shit on Mozilla/Firefox often, and often without any evidence or useful data to work with. And they often say they use Chrome instead, run by an organization that those same people would probably say is user-hostile.

It's like seeing people criticize corruption in Western democratic governments and declaring they're avoiding that mess by moving to Moscow.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#105

Post by cptskippy »

mrguyorama wrote: post #101

This person is aggressively against being rewarded for their selfless desire to make the internet functional, nicer, quieter, and more about the users. How many of you here instead spend your 40 hours a week making 6 digit salaries at a company that wants nothing more than to own the attention of everyone who connects to a network? How many of you have actively worked to create systems and technology to invade the sc…

> This person is aggressively against being rewarded

Back when uB was transferred to a different maintainer and uBO came about, I recall reading something about this. It isn't so much that they don't want reward or recognition but rather the do not want the obligation that comes with it.

Back when I maintained a couple Add-ons for Firefox there was a constant external pressure from users to fix/improve/maintain/develop the Add-on. In addition to that, the user base wants to engage and feel part of a community and interact with you. In a way it's stifling and why I eventually abandoned the Add-ons.

When you start accepting recognition or donations for work you share, there's obligation tied to it.

Some people don't want the obligation, it has nothing to do with virtue.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#107

Post by tylerfontaine »

ents wrote: post #45
computronus wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From https://ublockorigin.com/ itself: "The uBlock Origin project still specifically refuses donations at this time, and instead advises all of its clients, users and supporters to donate to block list maintainers." As an example, I donate to https://patreon.com/blocklist . Amazingly, right now, there are only 43 patrons.

I donate to oisd.nl -- the wife approved Pi-Hole DNS list that can also work with uBo.

Unfortunately, the list doesn't seem to be compatible with piHole (at least >5.0), and in searching around there's some beef between pi-hole folks and the oisd maintainer. I won't perpetuate it by posting links, but it's sad to see for sure.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#108

Post by lostgame »

Someone posted a comment I’d replied to in another thread here about iOS sideloading.

They’d asked ‘why do you even need sideloading, what apps would you even need?’

I’d said ‘emulators’, but uBlock is definitely another thing I wish I could sideload onto my iPhone.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#109

Post by gpm »

lazlee wrote: post #95
lazlee wrote: post #50

I find it funny that when HN loaded for me, the post below this one was "How I changed my mind about advertising." Not here - ads begone. Wuthout UblockO the net is ugly and insufferable.

Now if only somebody made a decent ad blocker for phones. I haven't been able to find one (android) that works decently.

Firefox + UBlock works great on android.

DNS66 works ok for apps that aren't browsers.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

#110

Post by ohyeshedid »

kazinator wrote: post #86

Block Element is a quite a useful feature of uBlock Origin. You can right click on individual things in a website's UI and make them go away using the "Block element ..." context menu command added by uBlock. This is useful for not only getting rid of ads, but anything that distracts you or tricks you into clicking on it. For instance, in Reddit, if you find yourself accidentally clicking on switching to New Reddit (…

Block Element is the goto where reader view fails.

For a great many sites, I remove headers, footers, sidebars, etc.

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